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News Release 2nd December 2006MORE BRINDLEY PLACE THAN BULLRING, PLEASEMichael Fabricant is telling the developers of the Birmingham Road Shopping Development, English Heritage, and the Government's Department of Communities and Local Government that "a Brindley Place or Jewellery Quarter style of development is far more in keeping with the City of Lichfield than some inappropriate concrete space like the Bullring." Michael Fabricant adds: "Most of us welcome an improvement to the Birmingham Road and enhanced shopping and entertainment that it will bring. The scale of the development is now more in keeping with our medieval City and is an improvement. In particular, the frontage on St Johns Street has been lowered as has the height of the hotel. "But the finishing will now either make or break this project. It will either become a scar on the landscape looking like a small part of the Bullring or Walsall has been dumped on the south of our City with people in years to come wondering who were the style-less vandals who could promote such a monstrosity or, as I hope, it will be finished tastefully using brick and wood with trees and attractive street furniture and will be an enhancement to the stylish City that Lichfield has become. "Other cities like Durham have attractive modern developments using traditional finishes. If Lichfield is to thrive, it must do the same. I feel very strongly about this. The appalling mistakes of planners in the 60s and 70s must not be repeated here today. My views and those of others are being reported to Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State, and to Harrisons (the developers), and English Heritage." |
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